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If I'm not mistaken, microcode updates will be/is available from Intel and AMD. Will those be available through normal Windows/Linux/OSX update channels, or do you have to find them on the CPU manufacturers sites?

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But islamism IS a product of class warfare. Rich white countries come into developing brown dictatorships, wreck the leadership, infrastructure and economy and then act all surprised that religious fanaticism is on the rise.

If I'm not mistaken, microcode updates will be/is available from Intel and AMD. Will those be available through normal Windows/Linux/OSX update channels, or do you have to find them on the CPU manufacturers sites?

Haha no neither of those.
You have to go to your mb manufacturer and get the bios update.

One thing to keep in mind when talking about "rolling out micorcode patch": this isn't your normal OS/app patch, which gets applied once and then it's done (~a bunch of faulty files gets repalced with fixed ones). A microcode patch is non-persistant and is - applied/run on every machine boot by the OS.

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I've noticed zero performance difference on my main machine, even running slack, chrome with 10+ tabs, Firefox and various other applications. I use this 10+ hours a day so would have expected to see some performance hit.

~ more seriously, I am curious as to what, if anything, I'll notice once I'm fully patched up myself since I'm only working with an Athlon 5350 to begin with (4 x 2.05 GHz) - not exactly a beast with big performance margins by which to afford any losses.

Literally tens of acquaintances are pestering me what to do. Slowdowns include issues with opening apps, opening more than a few browser tabs, general directory navigation and so on.

Given the fact my desktop is still sidelined from a few hardware failures I can't test this just yet, but I'll make sure to backup all the stuff before installing any updates or microcode stuff.

Any similar experiences?

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I've been having an issue with the latest AMD Adrenalin drivers. Apparently, there is a bug in Firefox where if you open a YouTube video, your GPU load shoots to 100% and stays there even when you close the browser. My fan is also stuck at 34% load. You can change some flags in Firefox to stop this from happening, or use the Crimson drivers.

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It is absurd that we are capable of witnessing a 40,000 year old system of gender oppression begin to dissolve before our eyes yet still see the abolition of a 200 year old economic system as an unrealistic utopia.

Literally tens of acquaintances are pestering me what to do. Slowdowns include issues with opening apps, opening more than a few browser tabs, general directory navigation and so on.

Given the fact my desktop is still sidelined from a few hardware failures I can't test this just yet, but I'll make sure to backup all the stuff before installing any updates or microcode stuff.

Any similar experiences?

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On my private gaming rig: no difference that I'm aware of.

From various internet articles/comments by both users and vendors: it depends upon your usage. Generally (disk) I/O and networking seems to be hit hard. The faster the discs (SSD), the more notable the performance lack is. So users with SATA drives won't notice a difference, because SATA itself is slower than the patch performance loss.

Games/graphics seem basically unaffected. My uneducated guess is that here the GPU does most of the work and therefore is mostly unaffected from the patch, which targets CPU behavior.